Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 10)

Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past

Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.

Craig DeLancey

5 Nov 2019 · 9 min read

The Return of the 'Witch Hunt' Analogy

The best way to prevent such perennial misuse of the “witch hunt” label would be for Americans to stop themselves before they allow their moral fervor to get out of control and run roughshod over the legal rights of others—in other words, to refrain from witch hunting in the first place.

Tony Fels

27 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

It's Time for 'LGB' and 'T' to Go Their Separate Ways

Gay rights activists simply want society to accept their different ways of living and loving—since gay men and lesbians pursue romantic interests and build families in ways that are at odds with conventional heterosexual expectations.

Brad Polumbo

26 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

The Defenestration of Domingo

Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.

Heather Mac Donald

18 Oct 2019 · 16 min read

Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald

Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity—A Review

The chapter on Trans issues is particularly revealing in regard to the way the different “building blocks” of intersectional theory come into conflict with one another.

Johan Wennström

7 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

The Dangerous Life of an Anthropologist

It took a long time for Chagnon to acclimatize to the deep interior of the Amazon Rainforest and its unique threats.

Matthew Blackwell

5 Oct 2019 · 24 min read

The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win

It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does.

Jamie Kilstein

24 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

Understanding America's Cultural and Political Realignment

To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.

Richard Tafel

16 Sep 2019 · 11 min read

In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze

Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity.

Marilyn Simon

10 Sep 2019 · 8 min read

Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review

Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.

Steven Volynets

17 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus

Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he